After rejecting other ideas as either too rough or poorly suited to walled-in gymnasiums, he wrote the basic rules and nailed a peach basket onto a 10-foot ( 3. 05 m ) elevated track.

After rejecting an offer from George Steinbrenner and former Indian Al Rosen, Stouffer sold the team in 1972 to a group led by Cleveland Cavaliers and Cleveland Barons owner Nick Mileti.

After a debate between the two deceased bards, the god brings Aeschylus back to life as more useful to Athens on account of his wisdom, rejecting Euripides as merely clever.

After rejecting methods used to preserve other bog bodies, such as the " pit-tanning " used on Grauballe Man which took a year and a half, freeze-drying was settled on.

After rejecting his suggestion, " April Morn ", she took " Vivian Leigh " as her professional name.

After rejecting a Manchu alteration to the original diplomatic terms in 1636, the Manchus invade again in 1637.

After World War I the heads of some formerly reigning dynasties continued the practice of rejecting or, increasingly, recognising dynastic titles and / or rights for descendants of " morganatic " unions, effectively de-morganatizing the latter.

After rejecting the suit of the nominal King of Spain, Archduke Charles of Austria, she married George Augustus, the third-in-line to the British throne and heir apparent to the Electorate of Hanover.

After initially rejecting the piece, Paganini, as Berlioz's Mémoires recount, knelt before Berlioz in front of the orchestra after hearing it for the first time and proclaimed him a genius and heir to Beethoven.

After rejecting several names, including " Virgin Killer ", the band finally settled on Overkill.

After rejecting all her suitors, she marries a dog, Ijirqang, with white and red spots.

After rejecting several possibilities ( men who are about to die ), Joe is finally persuaded to accept the body of millionaire industrialist Leo Farnsworth.

After rejecting the idea of creating a dance album together, the pair decided to form a new band.

After rejecting Russian proposals to broker peace negotiations, Britain reversed course in 1814.

After rejecting the idea of creating a dance album together, the pair decided to form a new band.

After initially rejecting her advances, he began dating Gwen, but they kept their relationship secret for a year, feeling that it was an unspoken rule that nobody date her.

After rejecting an offer from Liam to be the band's manager, he agreed to join the band, on the condition that he take creative control of the group and become its sole songwriter.

After a conference with Eden and Wavell in October and rejecting Wavell's suggestion for a two-pronged attack, Wilson launched Operation Compass on 7 December 1940.

Nino began his academic activity in the early 1970s, concentrating on some traditional issues in jurisprudence, such as the concept of a legal system, the interpretation of the law, the debate between legal positivism and natural law, and the concept of validity After realizing the need to clarify the normative problems involved in some of those issues, he was led to embrace a model based on the explicit adoption of principles of justice and social morality, rejecting the predominant German-inspired " dogmatic " approach.

After rejecting Iranian demands, Carter approved an ill-fated secret rescue mission, Operation Eagle Claw.

After rejecting titles such as " The Beast ", " The Lovers ", and " The Couple Next Door ", Gleason and his staff settled on " The Honeymooners " for the name of the new sketch.

After initially rejecting Liu Xiu's idea, the Kunyang rebels eventually agreed.

After rejecting a series of names ( including Just Us, Next Issue, and Verse Four ), the group decided on " 98 Degrees " after a suggestion from their managers, Paris Djon and Johnny Camisa.

After first rejecting the idea of an attack on Quebec, the Congress authorized the Continental Army's commander of its Northern Department, Major General Philip Schuyler, to invade the province if he felt it necessary.

After the war, Renoir followed his father's suggestion and tried his hand at making ceramics, but he soon set that aside to make films, inspired, in particular, by Erich von Stroheim's work.

After being excommunicated for his audacities by Pope Honorius III, Afonso II promised to make amends to the church, but he died in 1223 before making any serious attempts to do so.

After a few failed attempts at invasion, the brothers signed a peace treaty, arranged by Afonso's mother Queen Elizabeth.

After the death of the Buddha, attempts were made to gather his teachings and transmit them in a commonly agreed form, first orally, then also in writing ( the Tripiṭaka ).

After the Allied landings at Normandy, Germany made attempts to overwhelm the landing force with armoured attacks, but these failed for lack of co-ordination and Allied air superiority.

After previous failed attempts to bring the Major League Baseball to Colorado ( most notably the Pittsburgh Pirates nearly relocating to Denver following the Pittsburgh drug trials in 1985 ), by the late 1980s a team seemed to be a possibility in Denver.

After American-sponsored attempts to negotiate a coalition government failed in 1946, the Chinese Civil War resumed.

; Conversion ( or Convert ): After a touchdown, the team that scored attempts one scrimmage play from any point between the hash marks on or outside the opponents ' 5-yard line.

After the publication of these findings, various attempts to replicate the remote viewing findings were quickly carried out.

After his brother's death, Poe began more earnest attempts to start his career as a writer.

After his early attempts at poetry, Poe had turned his attention to prose.

After two failed attempts ( as he felt such a great sword should not be thrown away ), he finally complies with the wounded king's request and a hand emerges from the lake to catch it, a tale which becomes attached to Bedivere instead in Malory and the English tradition.

After a disappointing back to back seasons of 83-79 records ( 2004 and 2005 ) which were expected to be seasons of contention by the Marlins along with failed attempts to get state financing for a new ballpark, the team began a controversial dumping of players for prospects.

After a five-month siege with several unsuccessful and costly attempts, Spanish troops gave up and retired.

After several attempts from the other four Gundams to prevent this, Heero intercepts the battle station's remains as it enters Earth's atmosphere and destroys it with Wing ZERO's twin-barrel buster rifle, bringing an end to the war.

After repeated failed attempts at financial reform, Louis XVI was persuaded to convene the Estates-General, a representative body of the country made up of three estates: the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners.

After toppling Sierra, Bonilla, a conservative, imprisoned ex-president Policarpo Bonilla, a liberal rival, for two years and made other attempts to suppress liberals throughout the country, as they were the only group in the country with an organized political party.

) After a number of failed attempts to get the script to Kubrick made Waters realize the apparent futility of the enterprise, he decided to give the script to Michael Lehmann, who then took it on with Denise Di Novi.

After the attempts to achieve German national unity failed with the Revolutions of 1848, Wagner strongly relied on the picture of Henry as the actual ruler of all German tribes as advocated by pan-Germanist activists like Friedrich Ludwig Jahn.

After approximately 40 failed attempts, in early 1605 he at last hit upon the idea of an ellipse, which he had previously assumed to be too simple a solution for earlier astronomers to have overlooked.

After several attempts to acquire Davis, the organization was ultimately successful in signing him to a four-year $ 13 million contract ( the largest annual salary in baseball history at the time ) on December 11, 1989.

After several attempts and hardships, ACS representatives in December 1821 succeeded, perhaps with some threat of force ( see American Colonization Society ), to buy Cape Mesurado, a 36-mile long strip of land near current day Monrovia, from the indigenous ruler King Peter.

After his exile, Tarquin made a number of attempts to regain the throne.

After he was deposed, Banda was put on trial for murder and attempts to destroy evidence.

After several attempts, Ximénez states that he'll come in again, and herds the Inquisition back off the set.

After several failed attempts at developing an official team-owned mascot, the Vikings finally introduced Viktor the Viking during the 2007 Vikings ' season.